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AWS Restructures and Consolidates Its Well-Architected Framework
AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices. Other pillars received improved implementation guidance, including recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns.
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Cloudflare, Google and AWS Disclose HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability
On October 10th, Cloudflare, Google, and AWS disclosed a novel zero-day vulnerability attack known as the "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset." This attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, up to almost 400 million requests per second (rps).
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CloudWatch Introduces Best Practice Alarm Recommendations for 19 AWS Services
AWS has recently introduced "out-of-the-box" best practice alarm recommendations for Amazon CloudWatch. This new option is designed to improve observability on the AWS platform, allowing users to easily add alarms from the console and download templates for CloudFormation, Terraform, and the CLI.
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AWS Adds New Code Generation Models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of two new foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: Code Llama and Mistral 7B. These models can be deployed with one click to provide AWS users with private inference endpoints for code generation tasks.
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Amazon MSK Replicator: Active-Passive and Active-Active Clusters for Apache Kafka Service
AWS has recently announced MSK Replicator, a new option for cross-region and same-region streaming data replication. The new feature of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka service provides automatic asynchronous replication across clusters, enhancing availability and ensuring business continuity.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports pgactive for Active-Active Replication
AWS recently announced the general availability of pgactive on RDS for PostgreSQL. The replication extension for PostgreSQL supports asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances, enhancing resiliency and flexibility.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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AWS Application Composer Now Supports All Cloudformation Resources
AWS announced the availability of all AWS CloudFormation resource types within AWS Application Composer. This builds on the GA release which only allowed 13 CloudFormation resource types to be used.
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Terraform 1.6 Makes Testing Framework Generally Available
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.6 with several new improvements including a new testing framework. Additional improvements include changes to config-driven import, Terraform Cloud CLI workflows, and the Amazon S3 backend. This version marks the first release of Terraform to be under the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL 1.1).
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Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.
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AWS Lambda under the Hood: Mike Danilov at QCon San Francisco
During the first day of QCon Dan-Francisco 2023, Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood. The talk is a part of the “Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About.” Danilov's talk centered around invoke routing, compute infrastructure, and cold starts topics.
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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Amazon EBS Volumes Support Storage Fencing Using NVMe Reservations
AWS recently introduced support for NVMe reservations, a set of industry-standard storage fencing protocols, on io2 and io2 Block Express EBS volumes. Controlling and coordinating access from multiple instances to a shared volume, reservations are used by shared storage applications to ensure data consistency.
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Generative AI Service AWS Bedrock Now Generally Available
After announcing Bedrock last April in preview, Amazon is now making its fully-managed service for generative AI apps generally available.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.